Automatic stock-guard.



D. T. WARREN.

. AUTOMAFIC STOCK GUARD.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 11- I917.

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TDANIEL THOMAS WARREN, OF MABIETTA, OKLAHOMA.

AUTOMATIC STOCK-GUARD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Dec. 10, 1918.

Application filed April 11, 1917. Serial No. 161,261.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL T. WARREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Marietta, in the county of Love and State of Oklahoma, have invented a new and useful Automatic Stock- Guard, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention appertains to cattle or stock guards for railroad tracks, and aims to provide a device of that character of novel and improved construction, whereby the same is effective for preventing cattle or other stock from escaping from an inclosure along the track.

It is also the object of the invention to provide a stock guard of simple and inexpensive construction, which canbe readily installed upon the track.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed, can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein Figure 1 is a plan view of the guard applied to the track.

Fig. 2 is a cross section thereof.

Fig. 3 is a sectional detail taken on the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is an enlarged sectional detail illustrating the means for fastening one of the guard spurs in place.

The numerals 1 designate the rails of the track which are supported by the cross ties 2 as usual.

The present guard embodies transverse bars 3 disposed between the ties and having their ends projecting underneath and beyond the rails 1, there being a series of these bars 3 to effectively prevent the cattle or other stock from passing over the track at this point. As a convenient and desirable manner of supporting the bars 3, longitudinal beams 4 are seated upon the ties 2 at the inner sides of the rails, and the ends of said beams are secured by bolts 5 or otherwise to the corresponding ties 2, to hold the beams in place. The bars 3 are of reduced circular cross section, as at 6, below the beams 4 and rails 1, and U-shaped bearings or seats 7 have their end portions secured to the lower surfaces of the beams 4, and the reduced circular portions 6. of the bars 3 are seated and journaled in the bearings 7 Thus, the beams 4 support all of the bars 3, and said bars can rock about their axes.

A set of upstanding spurs 8 is carried by each bar 3 longitudinally thereof, said spurs being fiat and disposed in the vertical plane of the'axis of the bar and the upper ends of the spurs being pointed. The spurs are located at the inner and outer sides of the rails, and have reduced shanks 9 inserted downwardly in apertures in the bars 3. Wedges 10 are driven into the lower ends of the shanks 9 to spread them and thereby lock the shanks in their apertures.

Each bar 3 is weighted in order to hold the spurs 8 in a vertical position, and for this purpose, the bar is provided between its ends with a depending staple 0r loop 11 with which a link 12 is engaged loosely. The lower end of said link is engaged with an upstanding staple or loop 13 provided at the upper end of a weight 14 disposed below the bar and suspended therefrom by the link 12; The weight will therefore pull the loop 11 downwardly to hold the spurs 8 in vertical position, and said spurs can rock with the bar 3 in either direction. Due to the loose connection of the weight with the bar, the weight has but a limited movement between the ties 2, thereby enabling the bar or guard member to rock a considerable amount, which would not be possible if the weight were fixed to the bar so as to have a relatively long are of movement.

Disposed at. opposite sides of the track are sheet metal barriers 15 to prevent the stock from passing along the opposite sides of the track without passing over the spurs 8, which spurs will serve to turn the stock back into the inclosure.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new is In a device of the class described, cross ties; track rails thereon: longitudinal beams between the rails and in contact with the inner edges of the rails; means for securing the beams to the ties; bearings on the lower edges of the beams; a bar comprising enlarged endsdisposed on the outside of the rails, an enlarged central portion disposed between the beams and engaged at its ends with the beams to prevent the bar from shifting endwise, and circular parts connecting the ends with the central portion, In testimony that I claim the foregoing the circular parts being journaled in the as my own, I have hereto atfixed my signabearings and extending outwardly beneath ture in the presence of tWo Witnesses.

the rails; a Weight pivotally assembled With DANIEL THOMAS \VARREN. the central portion of the bar; and upstand- Witnesses:

ing spurs carried by the ends of the bar S. T. BLACK,

and by the central portion of the bar. WV. H. RITGHEY.

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